buddha82
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Some of the tripe being dished out in this thread. Wowee. It's round 2 people, go out for walk and calm down. Echo the comments about our fitness. We couldn't run out quarters in round 1 and looked miles off it against an admittedly fair bit younger Roos side. As Goody said, we held up for 3 quarters and then the damn burst in the last. Binman, as our resident loading expert, is it panic stations in the S&C department or just still blowing out the cobwebs? I think we got a glimpse of our future with Gawny being completely outmuscled and outplayed by Xerri. Time comes for us all, Gawny still one of the best I've ever seen pull on the guernsey, but was this a window of him 'moving into a different phase of his career' to quote the great Bill Simmons? Last one - why does Jack Viney still have a licence to kick it inside 50?!? Surely everyone, including he, knows that he can't hit the side of a barn when he's on the move, so a) why haven't the coaches taken his licence away and he's only allowed to extract and hand it off and/or b) why aren't his teammates running right next to him for the hand off? For such an important player jeez he frustrates the [censored] out of me. -
Yep echoing this. Brisbane and now Adelaide seems to have no problems working through our zone. Is the book out on how to do it? Or are we just a bit off in some way? As a side note, and removing my Demon hat, from my spot on level 2 it's fantastic to watch when it works - switch 2-3 times, stretch the zone, burst through with pace. Just sucks that it's against us!
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Best game we've played in 18 months I reckon, so while Binman was on the money and deserves credit for sticking fat, I also think it's fair to say this performance was well against our recent form line. That pressure and defensive intensity is the best I've seen it since we finished 2021 with a blaze of glory. Epic to see and we're every chance of going the distance if they can do that every week. Most people have covered off the main topics, but a couple of quick ones to add/throw in the mix: - Having Salem back has proved to be a real difference maker, I hadn't realised how much we'd missed his reading of the play and clean disposal. Adding him, the emergence of McVee (leaving his man to create the turnover just before the Hunter bump was beautiful and the whole team ran to him afterwards), plus getting back to the three talls + Hibbo combination of our premiership defence is critical for our future success. Just don't know how Bowey gets his spot back! - Echo the questions on Brayshaw. He does a lot of good things but also a lot of dumb things. Not sure where he's at currently. - Further to the question above on May's kick-in during the dying moments, do you think our long to the Member's wing kick out is getting too predictable? I thought having Salem kick out led to better opportunities. - JJ was excellent coming on as sub, but how do we squeeze him into our best 22? What do you rate our chances of holding onto him come end of the year? I reckon he's a walk up start to 12-15 AFL teams. Thanks gents!
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